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Xerox PARC Working On Modular Robots

Posted by Hemos on from the build-with-construtix dept.

An reader writes "I was watching Discovery Channel Canada last night, and they had a story about modular robotics that is being researched at Xerox PARC. Rather than build a single, large robot, project leader Mark Yim is working on small, autonomous bots that can work together to achieve a desired goal. When many of this bots are linked together, they call the result a polybot. "

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  1. PARC and robots by amphiskios · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I believe experiments that have been conducted allowing robots to be generated in an artificial environment and then automatically assembled favored those that formed symbiotic relationships.

    And besides, the idea will just be stolen from PARC. It's a shame.